This Is My Beautiful Life By The Early Bird Eater: HullGirl

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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Hello and welcome back to

The Early Bird Eater

Lifestyle and food blog

If you often read my blog you'll know I have a dog called Shadow.

If you don't well here is a little background on Shadow.

I took him on around four years ago and he is a great edition to the family he had been with one family sins he was a puppy and I took him on as the family could no longer have him.

Recently we got back from a trip to Cornwall and took Shadow with us we was not sure if he had even been on holiday so did not know what to expect.

Happily Shadow had a great time.

I took along some of Browns Dog Food

To find out more about Browns Dog Food

Follow the link below

http://www.brownsdogfood.co.uk/

Here is a little information about Browns

and the benefits of giving it to your dog.

Brown’s Pet Range are the first British company to include MacroGard® in their food.

The inclusion of MacroGard® in your pets diet helps them balance their defences, which allows a more efficient protection against challenges they may face.

Enhances natural defences, preparing them for the challenges ahead
Helps to reduce the risks and severity of bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases

It contributes for a better health status, optimising the efficiency of vaccines.
Activates the white blood corpuscles and thereby strengthens the immune system.

We opted for the Light and sensitive as Shadow is quite delicate with getting older

Light & Sensitive

The perfect blend of vitamins, minerals and nutrients for sensitive, grown-up dogs with low activity level, overweight or for senior dogs.

You purchase it here

http://www.brownsdogfood.co.uk/our-dog-food

Essential Health Benefits of Browns Dog Food are

Enhances natural defences, preparing them for the challenges ahead
Helps to reduce the risks and severity of bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases
It contributes for a better health status, optimising the efficiency of vaccines
Activates the white blood corpuscles and thereby strengthens the immune system
Shadow loved tucking into his new food and wagged his tail all the way through eating it.

I am confident Shadow will remain a huge fan!

This blog was brought to you in cooperation with

Browns Dog Food and www.digitalnext.co.uk

Monday, 9 March 2015

Hello and welcome back

to The Early Bird Eater

lifestyle and food blog.

I have the pleasure of writing and introducing

Adam of

Here is a small quote from Adams cakes

Adam takes an artistic approach to carving cakes. Just ask many of

his clients, which include such high-profile figures as the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, comedian Jimmy Carr and artist Damien Hirst. They're constantly telling us that our cakes are just too good to eat

Here is a link to Adams cakes

page on Facebook.

There is a huge gallery where you can see varied cakes that Adam has made over his career so far.

https://www.facebook.com/adscakes

The above image is of Paul Hollywood

and Adam himself.

Paul Hollywood

is a leading figure in Britain's baking culture.

Working on The Great British Bake Off

Any one who likes to bake waits for this show to air yearly.

http://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/

Below are images of the cakes

Adam has made that I liked and that I wanted to share with you.

Here is a little more information

about Adam and his dedication

to the cake making world.

Adam Cox, Company Director of Adams Cakes, designs and creates some of the most visually stunning cakes in the UK. The Manchester born cake baker made the move down to London to cater for his many celebrity customers, some of whom include Ronnie Wood, Ralph Lauren, Damien Hirst, Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr, and Richard Ashcroft, to name a few. Adam has also appeared on Paul Hollywood’s BBC series ‘Pies and Puds’.

This blog was brought you you by The Early Bird Eater in cooperation with Digital Next

International Women's Day

Hello and welcome back

First of all I would like to say a huge thank you to all my readers and welcome the new

readers also.

I have been very busy and attended an event in

Hull on Saturday to mark

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Here in Hull there was a celebration on the Saturday in Hull's central library.

I attended the panel discussion at mid day

(below is one of the posters for the event)

Here is a little about the venue

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/remarkable-history-city-s-public-libraries/story-18381636-detail/story.html

Firstly though I went to view some of the art on show in the cafe.

Here are a few

This created by my good friend

Debi Keable of her late nana.

A touching tribute may I add.

In Hulls library cafe quite a lovely space actually.

These by Lucy-Anna Howson

Then this by Rebecca Robyns.

So then onto the panel talk

Held in the main library

Debi talked about her work presented in Guild hall

A collection of rose petals from friends and family.The flowers was gifts from the loss of her nana.Debi put them all together to create the work.

Knowing Debi I know this meant an awful lot to her and the audience really related to Debi and her emotions.

If you wish to know more about

Debi Keable and her art see more here

https://www.facebook.com/DebiKeableArtist?fref=nf

The panel consisted of ladies who all had a very different life/story and events to tell the audience.

This lady is Kay Duran

Hulls Detective Chief Inspector

Who has quite the history

serving the Royal army corps and working as a police woman for twenty three years.

Working in the sector of vulnerable people and children who are sexually exploited.

Her role in the force and personal life must have been quite a challenge given it's a very male lead profession.

Uma Rajesh who is new to Hull working

at Hulls hospital as an obstetrician.

Mother to Welsh/Indian children descending from Chennai which was formally Madras.

Uma left her home country after marrying and being a midwife back home now focuses on

women in pregnancy with addiction during pregnancy.

Now to sister Teresa Matthews to lead a conversation also

Then to Margaret King

Who I had to say stole the whole talk.

Margaret wrote her first book at the tender age of

eight seven years old.

The quote

"A diary is a discipline of writing"

Writing the book Ada's Terrace find it here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adas-Terrace-Hull-Romance-Wartime/dp/0992972205

Then a leading lady in Hull

Diana Johnson who was one of 26 women out of 40 people to be in in the biggest intake of women into Parliament at that time.

Highlighting her proud moments as Introducing the smoking ban and being proactive regarding modern slavery.

See more here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Johnson

http://www.dianajohnson.co.uk/

Then the Lord Mayor of Hull

The Lord mayor is very interesting lady.

Before Saturday I knew very little about her.

However I discovered that she left school with one Olevel and sat again and got 7 and was a nurse for seventeen and a half years and then got a degree in Social work.

See more here

http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,52552&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

The talk was a great meeting of ladies varied and some known and unknown to the audience.

I certainly was captivated by each and every life story told more so Margarets moment to talk.

Gentle humbling and delicate she made the us all wait a while till she realised she had not got her glasses on to read to us.

This was a true moment of delight as I thought maybe she had been caught up in emotion in fact that was just me being emotional.

She captivated us all with every word then her daughter began to talk and told us even more about her which was truly the highlight of the whole talk for me.Letting us know that us women are true heroes and revealing her love and admiration for her mum.Took as all back and it was wonderful!

I hope next years event is bigger and we have more room to debate and talk with more room more women.Till then we can still talk still grow and still learn as women we should stand together like our sisters before.

Here is a list of all the artist on show at the event

Sunday, 10 August 2014

Good morning!

Happy Sunday

Wonderful to have you back

It's been a very busy week working at a festival cooking eating out and being a host for a dinner party

So here is the round up of the foodie lovelies

The table and dining room

I can't wait to stay at

La Rosa!

https://www.facebook.com/LaRosaHotelandCampsite?fref=ts

Vegetable and fig rendang and coconut rice

Also a beef and pomegranate rendang

My lovely English garden at night with my tree all lit up

Roses

These stunning mixers from

http://www.marksandspencer.com/

Roast peaches and apricot

toasted almond with sugar and cinnamon

Mascarpone

The fourth course was a little too much everyone was full

I agree 100% with loving yourself first so many women hate themselves and project that self loathing onto other women women in fact who love themselves.

Grow to like yourself take care of your body love your skin!

"The power to show real women, honest, present, complex and complete. Individuals, radiant in their own right. Not stripped of their personhood, or manipulated for a fantasy or metaphor."

See more here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/victoria-selbach_n_5648505.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000046